Corinne Silva
Corinne Silva (born 1976)[1] is a British artist whose work is a reflection on landscapes throughout the world, including conflict zones. Her photographs include images of Almería, Morocco, Israel, and Palestine.[2] Silva is a senior lecturer at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Silva was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.[1] She studied photography in Europe, receiving her BA degree from Nottingham Trent University, and an MA in photography at the University of Brighton. She gained her PhD from UAL's London College of Communication in 2014.[3]
Work
[edit]Silva was an artist consultant for the international research project Picturing Climate (2018–2020).[4] She exhibited her work Imported Landscapes, on climate and land issues, in Murcia, Southern Spain and Morocco in a series of on-site billboards. The project shed light on the "regions' shared histories and natural features and the difficulties in identifying what is 'native' across geographical and geopolitical borders."[5][2]
In 2015, Silva held a photographic exhibition entitled Garden State at The Mosaic Rooms in London. The show consisted of a large-scale installation of photographs of Israeli gardens, these images mapping how landscapes are shaped by settlement in the occupied territories over time.[6] Her monograph Garden State was published in 2016 by Ffotogallery and The Mosaic Rooms.[7]
Colin McLaughlin-Alcock, writing in the journal Visual Anthropology Review, states that Silva's work Gardening the Suburbs on the landscapes of Amman, Jordan, builds on the legacy of "social fragmentation and historic erasure that characterize Amman's geography." In 2017 she exhibited her work and co-led (with Eva Sajovic) the Open Lab: Plant/Lives workshop at Darat al Funun in Amman.[8]
The art critic, T. J. Demos writes in his essay "Spaces of Global Capital: On the Photography of Jason Larkin and Corinne Silva" that both Larkin and Silva's work is "deeply contradictory....filled with tension and conflict at once political and socio-economic, architectural and geographic." Demos goes on to state that Silva's imagery of the "paradox of waning sovereignty and walled states" is a contradictory visual statement on globalization by "insistently juxtaposing the signs of wealth and poverty via the architectural and geographical conditions of citizens and migrants, the elite and the disempowered."[9]
Academic career
[edit]Silva is a Senior Lecturer at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London.[3]
Publications
[edit]- Róisín Bán. 2006. ISBN 0955252903. With an essay by Brendan McGowan and foreword by Dermot Bolger.
- Wandering Abroad. 2009. ISBN 9780901981837. With essays by Caryl Phillips and Nigel Walsh.
- Garden State. 2016. ISBN 9781872771588.
Awards
[edit]- 2014: Triangle International Fellowship award to fund a residency and project in Jordan, Gardening the Suburbs[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Imported Landscapes, 2010, Corinne Silva" (PDF). The Mosaic Rooms. Retrieved 24 May 2024. (Text from My Sister Who Travels Exhibition Catalogue)
- ^ a b Sheikh, Shela (3 January 2019). "Corinne Silva: plants, power and the Israeli state". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ a b c "Corinne Silva". University of the Arts London. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Picturing Climate with Open University, Riera Studio, Most Mira, Auranitis Lifeline, Ibu and Counterpoints Arts | 28 November – 1 December 2019 | Explore the impact of climate change on food and livelihood insecurities through the lens of arts and the humanities". Tate Modern. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "The Next Generation: Corinne Silva". Aesthetica. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Corrine Silva. Garden State". Meer. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ Durrer, Hans (26 June 2016). "Book Review: Garden State by Corinne Silva". Blog – F-Stop Magazine. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ McLaughlin-Alcock, Colin (September 2020). "Cultivated Affects The Artistic Politics of Landscape and Memory in Amman's Gardens". Visual Anthropology Review. 36 (2): 275–295. doi:10.1111/var.12219.
- ^ Demos, T. J. (Autumn–Winter 2012). "Jason Larkin and Corinne Silva: Spaces of Global Capital: On the Photography of". Photoworks (19): 8–19. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Fellowship: Corinne Silva at Makan, Jordan". Triangle Network. 12 April – 31 May 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- "'Art can alter the way we look at war': the exhibition exploring the aftermath of conflict: Corinne Silva and Cécile Bourne-Farrell", 2 February 2023, College London News Center
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- 21st-century British women artists
- 21st-century English artists
- 21st-century English women
- Alumni of Nottingham Trent University
- Alumni of the London College of Communication
- Alumni of the University of Brighton
- Artists from Leeds
- British multimedia artists
- English women artists
- Photographers from Yorkshire